Emergency lawyers say that paramilitary force burned the villages, killing dozens, including pregnant children and women.
A group of human rights lawyers in Sudan accused the paramilitary fast support forces (RSF) of assaulting and burning the villages in the state of Kordofan del Norte and killing almost 300 people, including pregnant children and women.
The declaration of emergency lawyers on Monday occurred when the fight against RSF and the Sudanese army in the western areas of the country.
The two parties have been locked in a civil war since 2023, and the army has taken firm control of the center and east of the country, while the RSF is trying to consolidate its control of the Western regions, including North Kordofan and Darfur.
The emergency lawyers said the RSF had attacked several villages on Saturday around the city of Bara, than the paramilitary force.
In a village, Shag Alnom, more than 200 people died in a “terrible massacre,” the group said. The victims were “burned inside their homes” or fired. In neighboring villages, another 38 civilians were also killed and more dozens have disappeared by force.
The next day, the RSF carried out “another massacre” in the town of Hilat Hamid, killing at least 46 people, including pregnant women and children, added the group.
“It has been shown that these specific villages were completely empty of any military objective, which makes clear the criminal nature of these crimes carried out without taking into account international humanitarian law,” emergency lawyers said, which assumes responsibility with RSF leadership.
The United Nations International Migration Organization (IIM) said on Sunday that he intensified the fight in the region forced more than 3,000 people to flee from the villages of Shag Alnom and Al-Kordi.
Many have sought refuge in the surrounding parties of Bara, according to the UN agency.
The United States and human rights groups have accused the RSF of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Their soldiers have carried out a series of violent looting incursions into territory that has taken control of the entire country.
RSF's leadership says it will bring those responsible for such acts to justice.
The Civil War of Sudan has created the world's largest humanitarian crisis, which leads to more than half of the population to hunger and the spread of diseases, including cholera, throughout the country.
At least 40,000 people have been killed, while 13 million have been displaced.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a new investigation into war crimes in the west region of Darfur, and on Thursday, Nazhat Shameem Khan prosecutor told the UN Security Council that his office has “reasonable reasons to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity” are being committed there.
Khan said his office has focused his investigation on the crimes committed in western Darfur, and interviewed the victims who have fled to neighboring Chad.
She said that the depth of suffering and the humanitarian crisis in Darfur “have reached an intolerable state”, with famine and hospitals, humanitarian convoys and other civil infrastructure attacked.
“People are being deprived of water and food. Violation and sexual violence are being armed,” Khan said, adding that rescue kidnappings had become “common practice.”
